Accounting Associate

The position holder is accountable for cost related accounting and reporting including provision of information to other areas of the Swiss Re Group for tax and regulatory purposes. To include assistance with policy setting, process improvement, identification and implementation.

Your job will include :
- Account for and produce monthly/quarterly/annual accounts for assigned businesses and legal entities
- Act as focal point of contact for assigned countries
- Accruals and prepayment accounting
- Payroll accounting and associated balance sheet entries
- Handle, or control, balance sheet reconciliation processes where not controlled by other Finance team
- Account for, reconcile and report on the company’s Fixed Assets
- Prepare VAT / equivalent reporting for VAT / equivalent managers (including reconciliations)
- Prepare reporting for the various jurisdictions served by Finance
- All intercompany recharge processing and related activity, i.e. accounting for intercompany recharges in and recharges out and International Assignee accounting / processes. All associated reconciliations
- Transactional level reporting to the business
- Assisting in policy setting and process improvement identification and implementation
- Act as the interface between Finance team and rest of Group, e.g. Tax and Legal teams, Group Cost
Management / Controlling, Group FP&A, wider business community
- Any other ad hoc tasks as required from time to time